Beware of the Dragon!

Gerry Callaghan 2019-03-15

The Shannon Academy – New Horizon dragon will be making a special appearance at the St Patrick’s Day on Saturday.

Come and cheer!

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English Classes in Shannon Academy

English classes begin in Shannon Academy on Wednesday February 14th. A bus will collect participants in the centre at 9.30 a.m. Please be on time. The bus will…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-02-08

The Forest Experience

We have started a really lovely project. Each Saturday we take children from the Athlone DP site to Portlick woods. There they can jump and…

Gerry Callaghan 2021-06-13

Asylum Narratives Colloquium 29th September DCU St Patrick’s Campus

Anyone interested in this? It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the DCU Asylum Narratives colloquium, which takes place on Friday 29th September.…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-09-20

Congratulations to the people who organised the St. Patrick’s Day parade entry. New Horizon was the winner in the Voluntary Category. The awards and presentation evening…

Gerry Callaghan 2018-04-11

Photos from the Christmas Party!

Theresa making pretty ribbon bows before the kids arrive! Big thanks to AIT staff, AIT chaplaincy service, International students society, music students, New Horizon volunteers,…

Gerry Callaghan 2017-12-19

FAQ’s

We are a front line refugee support group mainly working on the Lissywollen Direct Provision site in Athlone. Our focus is on providing information and help to the 300 (on average) residents living there.

We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

Everyone in the DP sites in Athlone and Temple is what is described as a ‘Convention’ refugee. People who have arrived in Ireland under a United Nations resettlement program are known as ‘Programme’ refugees.

Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

People can get protection if they meet the conditions set out in The United Nations Convention on Protection of Refugees.

See Definition of a Refugee

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